{"id":90836,"date":"2025-11-24T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:49:41","slug":"sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge","title":{"rendered":"Sabally Critiques Darboe&#8217;S D5 Million Election Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Demba Sabally, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Security, sharply criticized a campaign pledge by West Coast Region Chairman Yankuba Darboe, calling it a threat to national development and an attempt to mislead voters ahead of the 2026 presidential election.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during President Adama Barrow\u2019s \u201cMeet the People Tour\u201d in Brikama, Sabally denounced Darboe\u2019s promise to allocate D5 million to every ward should his party leader, ANM Ousainu Darboe win the 2026 presidential elections. The minister questioned why such funds\u2014if they truly exist\u2014were not being used to address long standing infrastructure deficits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that money is available, why not use it to build roads and markets?\u201d Sabally asked, suggesting that opposition leaders would prefer to withhold development in order to deny President Barrow credit. \u201cLet him wait for the hereafter to give that money, because Ousainu Darboe will not win,\u201d he added, referring to the United Democratic Party leader.<\/p>\n<p>Sabally accused Chairman Darboe of failing to deliver basic services in the West Coast Region, claiming that residents regret electing him. \u201cSince he came into office, he has not constructed any road in Brikama\u2014let alone the entire region,\u201d the minister said. He described market conditions during the rainy season as unsanitary and alleged that Darboe \u201cis unable to do anything about roads and markets apart from being involved in disputes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister also criticized what he described as a steep increase in compound tax under Darboe\u2019s leadership, from D200 to D2000, arguing that West Coast residents now face higher local tax burdens than communities in other regions. He predicted that voters \u201cwill remove him from office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sabally further asserted that the opposition-held National Assembly seats in the West Coast Region have slowed government progress, accusing their representatives of seeking to \u201ctake the development of the region backward.\u201d He said the same applied to opposition councillors, insisting that voters would \u201csolve\u201d the issue in future elections.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Chairman Darboe nor the United Democratic Party immediately responded to Sabally\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Demba Sabally, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Security, sharply criticized a campaign pledge by West Coast Region Chairman Yankuba Darboe, calling it a threat to national development and an attempt to mislead voters ahead of the 2026 presidential election. Speaking during President Adama Barrow\u2019s \u201cMeet the People Tour\u201d in Brikama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":90835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-90836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sabally Critiques Darboe&#039;S D5 Million Election Pledge - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Demba Sabally, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Security, sharply criticized a campaign pledge by Wes ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sabally Critiques Darboe&#039;S D5 Million Election Pledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Demba Sabally, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Security, sharply criticized a campaign pledge by Wes ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-24T16:46:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-24T17:49:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1763993874.084728.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sabally Critiques Darboe&#8217;S D5 Million Election Pledge\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-24T16:46:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-24T17:49:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge\"},\"wordCount\":353,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1763993874.084728.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sabally-critiques-darboes-d5-million-election-pledge\",\"name\":\"Sabally Critiques Darboe'S D5 Million Election Pledge - 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